The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-23
POLITICAL.

The Nebraska House passed a bill
providing for bureau of industrial statistics
An Indianapolis dispatch says
David Turpie's certificate of election as
United States Senator from Indiana was de-
livered to him to-day by the Governor the
Secretary of State having consented. on the
advice of the Attorney General, to attest the
signature of the Governor 10 the document,
as the law makes this his duty. In a foot
note he says that his name If not to be re-
garded as an Endorsement of the certificate.
The Michigan House refused to re-
peal the Baker conspiracy law, designed to
prevent strikes
The Missouri House adopted the
Joint resolution providing that the question of
prohibition be submitted to a vote of the PEG
ple of the State.
Missouri's Solone have killed the bill
prohibiting the acceptance of railway passes
by State officials.
I he Missouri Legislature defeated
bill TO establish and maintain State militia,
A resolution for the punishment and
prevention of boycotting is before the Wis
consia Legislature. The New York Senate
has passed bill granting women the right to
vote at municipal elections. The Indiana
House defeated a motion to suspend the rules
and appropriate $4,000 for soldiers
monument The Governor of Kansas has
| approved and signed the bill comforting
municipal suffrage upon women. A bill
repeating the black laws and the statute pro-
viding for separate schools for colored chill
dren passed the Ohio Senate. Upon the defeat
in the Minnesota House of Donnelys bill
fixing maximum rate for grain freghts, the
author of the measure created sensation by
declaring that he had been informed that
members could get $3.50 for voting against the
bill, aud $3.50 more for opposing the Emery
railroad bill
Public sentiment in Missouri caused
the House to reconsider its vote refusing to
provide for the maintenance of the State
militia. A country member of the New York
Assembly has introduced bill to prohibit the
custom of treating to drinks in saloons. The
Ohio House put through measure for the
abandonm ent and sale OF the Wabash and
Erie Canal, but the Senate promptly tabled it
Walter and Turley, the Democratic members
of the New Jersey Assembly whose seats
after furious aud protracted struggle by the
close vote of 81 to - in each case
Major w. w. Armstrong, who has
! just been appointed Postmaster of Cleveland,
to succeed Thomas Jones, Jr., was for years
editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
President Cleveland states that many
members of the present Congress have been
recommended to him for places on the inter-
/ state commerce. commission and there is none
of them whom he would so gladly nominate
as Colonel Morrison
AT the Philadelphia municipal cleo
ton the Republican canGi late received %, 497
votes, the Democratic candidate G., 2O4, and
Henry Georges candidate l,GG4
Both houses of the Michigan Legis-
lature Friday passed a resolution asking Con-
gress to pass the dependent pension bill over
the Presidents veto.
The Missouri Senate indefinitely
postponed consideration of the resolution for
thu submission of a prohibitory amendment
Both houses of the Indiana Legisla-
ture have passed bill appropriatng sou, 900
for the erection of a soldiers monument in
Circle Park, at indianapolis
Public Printer Benedict's nomination
has been acted on adversely by the Senate
Printing Committee. Washington special to
the Chicago Times says:
The immediate ground for deciding against
| him Ia that the law requires that the Office
| should be held by practical printer, and Mr..
| Benedict is not practical printer His bust
| ness is that Of a publisher Of country paper.
But aside from this legal objection, he has not